Tablet and tablet-cover



(No Model.)

' R. MQOURDY.

T TABLET AND TABLET GOV-ER. No. 283,006. Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT MoGURDY, OE'KENTON, OHIO."

TABLET AND TABLET-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 283,008, dated August 14, 1883. Application filed March 19, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it mag concern.-

Be'it known that I, ROBERT MoOURDY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Kenton, in the county of I-Iardin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Tablet and Tablet-Cover, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying'drawings.

This invention relates to writing-tablets and blotters and covers for the same; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction thereof, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tablet. Fig. 2 is a like view of the cover and blotter. Fig. 3 is a like view, showingthe tablet in position in the cover. Fig. 4. is a plan view of the blotter detached. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view-of the device complete.

The same letters refer t;- the same parts in all the figures.

A represents the tablet, which consists of a block or pad of leaves or sheets the upper edges of which are connected to a back, B, the lower edgeof which has a flange, C, flexibly connected thereto. It is not necessarily the upper edges of the sheets which are thus con nected, as, .especiallyin large pads, it may be found preferable to connect the sheets at the side. 7 I 1 .Dis a cover, which consists of sides E F,

connected by a flexible back, G. Secured to the lower side, F, adjacent to the said back G, is a plate, H, of sheet metal, having a n shaped flange, I, of suitable dimensions to re ceive the flange O of the pador tablet.

J is a blotting-pad of suitable size to cover the pad or tablet A, and having securedto its end or edge a wire loop, K, extending entirely along such end or edge, as shown.

The operation of this invention will be readiljunderstood. The loop K of the blotter is first slipped under the flange I, to which the blotter is thus detachably hinged. The flange O of the pad is then "slid under the flange I, thereby connecting the said pad securely to the cover. When the pad A has been used, theflange C may be readily detached and a new pad or tablet inserted in its place.

The construction of this device is simple, and it is neat, convenient, and useful.

I claim as my invention, and desire to sev cure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. A writing pad or tablet consisting of sheets connected. to a back, in combination with a flange flexibly connected to the lower edge of said back, as set forth.

2, A blotting-pad having at one end or edge a wire loop extending entirely along said end or edge,-in combination with a tablet-cover having a n-shaped flange to receive the said loop, as set forth. I r

3. The combination, with a tabletcover consisting of two flexibly-connected sides, one of which is provided with a metallic plate having a n-shaped flange, of a pad or tablet consisting of sheets connected at one side to a back, having at its lower edge a flexibly-connected flange, and a blotter having at one end or edge a wire loop extending entirely along such end or edge, allcombined and operating substantially as set forth.

I11 testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT; MoGURDY.

\Vi tnesses FLVV. ORIswELL, V WILL M. BECKMAN. 

